[MPlayer-users] option to avoid "Audio: no sound"?

[John Doe]

From: Nix <niks1024 at gmail.com>

>   On 2010.10.16. 22:07, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > Sometimes I start MPlayer and for whatever reason audio  is not functional. 
>This
> > condition might arise because MPlayer couldn't  open /dev/dsp, for instance.
> I'm in no way  an expert but I'm pretty certain that that should not 
> happen on any modern  Linux based OS.
> The only sane explanation would be that you are running some  very old 
> software that is directly accessing and hogging /dev/dsp all for  itself.
> Hence what software are you  running?

personaly, I had many problems with the flash plugin holding on /dev/dsp...
Killing it would solve the issue... until next time...

JD